Musician Dolly Parton dies at 80

Dolly Parton dies at 802:16

• Brian Seaver (Dolly Parton's nephew)opinion

  Says the family's team will work to ensure Dolly's spirit lives on forever, describing her as an extended part of every family's life

• Shaima Khalilopinion

  Observes that Dolly Parton has been a rare unifying figure across generations and political affiliations in a divided America

Dolly Parton's songwriting roots and philanthropy6:30

Music professor Lydia Hammersley, author of "Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton," said Parton began writing songs as a child, composing her first one about a corn-cob doll at age five with her mother transcribing the lyrics. Hammersley said Parton's rural Tennessee poverty was central to her songwriting imagination, citing the song "Paradise Road," and that Parton deliberately built her glamorous look to draw attention in 1960s Nashville while she was trying to sell songs rather than become a singer. Hammersley also highlighted lesser-known philanthropy, including funding for Tennessee wildfire relief and a local birthing unit, beyond the well-known Imagination Library and Moderna vaccine funding.

Meta trial: Instagram boss denies suppressing harm data10:27

• Adam Mosseriassertion

  Denies encouraging employees to hide negative information from the public

• Colorado Attorney General's office (via internal Meta chats)clip

  Internal messages show employees were deliberately careful not to reveal sensitive research to Mosseri because of the legal risk it posed to him

Killer robots and autonomous weapons warning14:09

• Alessandra Vellucci (UN Information Service)assertion

  Renews an urgent call for international restrictions on autonomous weapons, warning the world is close to crossing a moral red line

• Andrew Kramerassertion

  Reports that Russian AI-guided drones tested in Ukraine appeared to operate with no human in the loop, using onboard computers to decide whether to strike

• Paul Mossopinion

  Argues AI drones could be sent to autonomously find and destroy a specific vehicle or person via facial recognition, risking catastrophic AI errors

Canada-US tariff escalation20:48

• Francois-Philippe Champagneopinion

  Says the U.S.-proposed trade terms were uneconomic, unfair, and unacceptable, asking too much of Canada while offering too little

• Doug Fordopinion

  Calls Trump "a loser" and vows to fight the U.S. tariffs with everything Ontario has

• Donald Trumpclip

  Brands Canada entitled and unreasonable and has floated renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"

Chinese artist Gao Jun jailed over Mao sculptures22:46

• Mickey Bristowopinion

  Says the sentencing shows there is very little room for artists in China to criticize the Communist Party, even through art

• Gao Jun's brotherclip

  Says history will judge whether an artist can be imprisoned for confronting history through art

The Story: a play about journalism's pursuit of a scoop26:24

• Tracy Scott Wilsonopinion

  Says the play is relevant now because everyone can be their own newspaper delivering news through personal perspective, while most journalists still report as faithfully as they can

• Janet Cookeassertion

  Admits her fabricated Pulitzer-winning story was wrong and that people will no longer believe what she says

Fifty-year-old whiskey barrel windfall29:10

Angus Kerr, 81, from southern England, bought a barrel of Glenrothes single malt whisky in 1971 hoping to sell it five years later to pay his children's school fees, but lost track of it for decades after the company went bust. He recently tracked down the barrel, which holds enough whisky for about 287 bottles, and experts declared it fantastic despite the risk it could have lost alcohol content or turned oaky, valuing his roughly $177 investment at nearly $370,000.